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Open Document Format

One thing to think about in the future is providing University documents in open document format (ODF). This would ensure that users could always access information without worrying about licensing. It would also allow users to open one document with any number of products that support this open standard.

Texas, Minnesota eye move to ODF
Minnesota Preservation of State Documents Act

This entry was posted on Friday, April 20th, 2007 at 4:08 pm and is filed under Documents. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

2 Responses to “Open Document Format”

  1. geraets Says:
    April 20th, 2007 at 4:13 pm

    I find it ironic that the bill is posted as a PDF:
    http://wdoc.house.leg.state.mn.us/leg/LS85/HF0176.0.pdf

  2. Mike Bruder Says:
    May 10th, 2007 at 10:42 am

    Concordia should seriously consider a similar move. If it was a policy that all documents had to be in Open Document Format, we wouldn’t be dealing with students using all different types of file formats for submitting papers, and professors not being able to read the documents because they are in some proprietary format like Office 2007, Word Perfect, etc.

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